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Re-enchanting the Human in the Age of AI: 5 Irreplaceable Human Beings
What AI can simulate, these humans embody: fragility, risk, truth, and sacred meaning.
Designing a Regenerative Cultural Economy
“When values-aligned actors begin to acquire digital works from the Art Stoke Commons ecosystem, they don’t just support individual artists – they validate a new logic of cultural production. Each successful Hive becomes a proof-of-concept. Each replication, a new node in a growing network of islands of coherence. If it works in South Africa where the wounds of inequality and…
Why South African Digital Art Needs Its Own Space
“In a country where the need to rewrite the past is still urgent, digital art should not be reduced to tokenized pixels. It should be part of a national cultural ecosystem that allows truth, disruption, and ordinary complexity to emerge.”
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Why do People Collect NFTs?
People have varying motivations for collecting NFTs. Some may see the value in owning digital assets, while others may prefer traditional physical collectibles. As the NFT space continues to evolve, ongoing research will shed more light on the intricacies of NFT collecting behavior and motivations.
Who bought Beeple’s NFT artwork “Everydays” ($69.3m)?
The buyer of Beeple’s NFT artwork “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” was Vignesh Sundaresan, a cryptocurrency investor and the founder of the Metapurse NFT project. The artwork was purchased for $69.3 million at Christie’s in March 2021, making it the most expensive single non-fungible token (NFT) ever sold. Sundaresan bought the artwork under his pseudonym […]
Designing a Regenerative Cultural Economy
“When values-aligned actors begin to acquire digital works from the Art Stoke Commons ecosystem, they don’t just support individual artists – they validate a new logic of cultural production. Each successful Hive becomes a proof-of-concept. Each replication, a new node in a growing network of islands of coherence. If it works in South Africa where the wounds of inequality and the hunger for cultural healing are deep, it can serve as a blueprint for global cultural resurgence in the digital age.”
